Cold War Lecture Notes: Comrades 1917-1945

  1. Who were the first super powers to generate nuclear weapons that can potentially wipe out the world?
  1. What was built under the American Hotel?
  1. Who are the 3 political leaders seated together?
  1. What countries did the Big 3 represent?
  1. What do you think it meant when Stalin was congratulated by the U.S. Ambassador (W. Averell Harriman) saying, “This must be great satisfaction for you for getting through all of the trials and tragedies that you have been through to be here in Berlin,” but Stalin responded, “Czar Alexander got to Paris.”?
  1. Why would Woodrow Wilson exclude Bolshevik Russia from his peace statement, “Safe for small nations, sound for business.”?
  1. What was Stalin’s Economic Plan and the consequence of that economic policy?
  1. How do you think Stalin kept the people from finding out that he killed millions of their own people?
  1. How much did heavy industry increase as a result of the war and Stalin’s economic plan?
  1. What political strategy did Stalin try and use to get public support for his harsh policies?
  1. Why do you think Theodore Roosevelt wanted to stay out of World War 2?
  1. What country did Hitler take without fighting?
  1. What was the Nazi-Soviet Pact?
  1. What month and year did Hitler and Russia invade Poland?
  1. What year and day did Germany invade the Soviet Union?
  1. What event brought the United States into WWII?
  1. What did the Nazi’s try and do at Katyn, Russia to undermine the Allies alliance with the Soviet Union? And what was the Allied response?
  1. What day was D-Day and what country did the second landing take place in?
  1. Polish freedom fighters retook Warsaw and waited for Russian assistance. The Russians who happened to be outside the city chose not to intervene. Why?
  1. Churchill and Stalin sat down in Moscow and discussed the dividing of Post War Europe. How was Europe to be divided according to the secret note?

Romania

Greece

Yugoslavia

Hungry

Bulgaria

  1. What year and month did Franklin D. Roosevelt die?
  1. How many lives were lost in Russia as a result of the war?
  1. What day did the Germans surrender?